britechguy
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You forgot to mention Microsoft's new sh*tty policy of encrypting your drives without your permission when you're using a Microsoft account.
Citation(s) please.
You forgot to mention Microsoft's new sh*tty policy of encrypting your drives without your permission when you're using a Microsoft account.
Citation(s) please.
That's not Microsoft's policy, it's a setting presented to the user. They must click OK, and the keys are in the account, also not MS's fault people can't keep track of their junk. It IS generally better to have data encrypted at rest.You forgot to mention Microsoft's new sh*tty policy of encrypting your drives without your permission when you're using a Microsoft account. That's always fun.
I'm seeing quite a few of them. I don't get in many low end laptops but I did see one that was only worth about $400 come in with automatic encryption.I'm not counting on the majority of devices being shipped with every element required configured.
Sneakily maybe. This should be something optional that the user has to specifically choose to enable, not enabled by default unless the user opts out.That's not Microsoft's policy, it's a setting presented to the user.
Maybe for business users with sensitive data, but for home users it's idiotic. They're MUCH more likely to have a device failure and need their data recovered than encounter a situation where a bad actor has direct, physical access to their computer. A computer isn't a smartphone. Nobody is bringing their laptop everywhere they go. There's no need to make encryption default. The ONLY reason why Apple and Microsoft are doing this BS is so that people will lose their data and they can go "See? You should have been paying $XX/month for cloud backup!"It IS generally better to have data encrypted at rest.
They must click OK, and the keys are in the account, also not MS's fault people can't keep track of their junk.
business users with sensitive data
That still happens for me too!I like the convenience of having any Microsoft service open "automatically associated" with the Microsoft Account
Thanks for that, I didn't know about those settings. I have started getting questions from clients about that full screen prompt for an account name, happens after login to their local account occasionally.Settings, search for notifications, see those 6 boxes? Untick the bottom 3... it kills SO MANY NAGS, including that forced enrollment.
I see bad SSDs regularly. Besides, it's not just SSD failure that's the problem here. The problem is when the computer dies there's no way to get their data back unless you can somehow get into their Microsoft account from another computer and get their recovery key.SSDs fail far less than HDDs do
Yeah, because a HUGE percentage of laptops get stolen every year, right? Get real. There are over 244 million laptops in the US, and only about 600,000 get stolen, mostly from airports. A lot of those stolen laptops probably belong to foreigners too, so you shouldn't count those as a percentage of US laptops that get stolen, but even if you did, that's only 0.00245% of laptops that get stolen. SSD annual failure rates are WAY higher than that, and if you don't travel much the chances of your laptop getting stolen is even less.defended from theft
Thanks! That's really helpful!Settings, search for notifications, see those 6 boxes? Untick the bottom 3... it kills SO MANY NAGS, including that forced enrollment.
Your Android / iOS device? Yeah... it's encrypted at rest.
Because Windows computers tend to have more serious content than mobile devices, and because computers are traditionally easy to recover data from by removing the drive or booting from USB device (both of which can't be done with mobile devices as far as I know).Your Android / iOS device? Yeah... it's encrypted at rest. So why is Microsoft getting a black eye for doing the same thing?
Because Windows computers tend to have more serious content than mobile devices, and because computers are traditionally easy to recover data from by removing the drive or booting from USB device (both of which can't be done with mobile devices as far as I know).
you cannot give a "No" as an answer if you only protect certain folders.
OneDrive backup is a good idea for many people, I suggest it and help people with it all the time. There are however some legitimate complaints about technical issues, e.g.Which *gasp* Microsoft is trying to do here too, much to everyone's constant drum beat of complaining.
In my opinion, MS puts a lot of effort into the wording of those nags, to achieve what they want users to do without appearing to be bullies, and to still allow business and enthusiast users to bypass them. They're not badly worded due to incompetence, it's by design.But the nags COULD be better worded...
That's when they changed the upgrade request window to default to 'sure go ahead' when closed with the X in the top right corner, previously the default when closing was 'go away'. I have no problem with Microsoft encouraging the upgrade, but using deception to do it?
Same here. Usually because of some darn game in the Windows store.Another 'deception' they've been using for years is when a local account user specifies a MS account for an app, there's a dialog box titled 'Use this account everywhere on this device' with some text about apps (nothing about login) and a big Next button, and there's a Microsoft Apps Only option in small font. Nothing about this dialog indicates that pressing Next (most people's natural inclination) will change the computer login to use the online Microsoft account, or that clicking MS Apps Only allows them to keep their account setup as is. The wording of this dialog is why so many ordinary users end up switching from a local account (originally setup by a tech or the OOBE without internet connection). And why we often get said users complaining that their password doesn't work next time they login, they know nothing about MS account login, so obviously did not explicitly agree to the change. This isn't a rare occurrence, so we can't just blame some people for being stupid.